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Adjective
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The direction toward the point of the horizon where the sun rises at the equinoxes, on the right-hand side of a person facing north, or the point on the horizon itself,
  1. Lying toward, near, or facing the east
    • - the hospital's east wing
  2. (of a wind) Blowing from the east

  3. Situated in the part of a church containing the altar or high altar, usually the actual east

  4. Of or denoting the eastern part of a specified area, city, or country or its inhabitants
    • - East Texas
    • - East African
Noun
  1. The direction toward the point of the horizon where the sun rises at the equinoxes, on the right-hand side of a person facing north, or the point on the horizon itself
    • - a gale was blowing from the east
    • - the Atlantic Ocean is to the east of Florida
  2. The compass point corresponding to this

  3. The eastern part of the world or of a specified country, region, or town
    • - a factory in the east of the city
  4. The regions or countries lying to the east of Europe, esp. China, Japan, and India
    • - the protection of trade routes to the East
  5. The eastern part of the US from the Alleghenies on the west and north of the Mason-Dixon line
    • - Pittsburgh beat up on the bottom three teams in the East
  6. The former communist states of eastern Europe

  7. The player sitting to the left of North and partnering West

Adverb
  1. To or toward the east
    • - traveling east, he met two men
    • - the river rises east of the city
  1. the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
  2. situated in or facing or moving toward the east
  3. to, toward, or in the east; "we travelled east for several miles"; "located east of Rome"
  4. the countries of Asia
  5. the region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River
  6. the direction corresponding to the eastward cardinal compass point
  7. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST, internal designation HT-7U) is an experimental superconducting tokamak magnetic fusion energy reactor in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province, in eastern China. ...
  8. East was the third studio album by Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel, released in June 1980. The album peaked at No. 2 on the national chart and was the biggest-selling Australian album release of the year. ...
  9. East Wivelshire and West Wivelshire (usually known merely as East and West) are two of the ancient Hundreds of Cornwall.
  10. The four cardinal directions or cardinal points are the directions of north, south, east, and west, commonly denoted by their initials: N, S, E, W. East and west are at right angles to north and south, with east being in the direction of rotation and west being directly opposite. ...
  11. East is a constituency of the European Parliament in Ireland. It elects 3 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
  12. The London Plan is a planning document written by the Mayor of London, England in the United Kingdom and published by the Greater London Authority. The plan was first published in final form on 10 February 2004 and has since been amended. The current version was published in February 2008. ...
  13. (Eastern) Chronicle (New Glasgow), 29 Dec. 1925.
  14. (Eastern) Romanian (Moldovan, Vlach) ♦ Aromanian ♦ Megleno-Romanian ♦ Istro-Romanian
  15. (in  Eastern Cape (province, South Africa))
  16. (eastness) aspect to east or west derived from DEM layer
  17. noun - The cardinal direction towards planetary rotation. The opposite direction is west. Distance east or west is measured in longitude.
  18. The camping area east of the railway is officially called camping East, but is also known as East. In East you find the swimming lake, the fishing lake and Roskilde Cinema. It is also on the east side of the railway that the festival site is located.
  19. [from Old English est; cf Latin aurora, Greek auos dawn] One of the four quarters of the globe, different quarters being considered sacred in archaic religio-philosophy, sometimes said to be the place whence wisdom comes: there are the wise men from the East, the star in the East; Christian ...
  20. The Eastern hemisphere. An area about which (to most people) virtually nothing is known. Wild tales tell of a tortured land dominated by the Unlife, or a land of incredible but insane beauty, or that there is no East at all: that the world is actually flat and that ships sail off the earth.
  21. (*aus-to-) from the word for dawn, see Ēostre.
  22. The player who begins the game. Also known as the dealer.
  23. In parameter space, the direction in which the parameter k increases.
  24. The direction from which Father Sun enters the sky bringing the beginning of days, enlightenment and an infinite array of choices as to what we might use our day for. The direction of the eagle and all of the eagle’s relatives. This is an anchor stone of the spiritual wheel of life.
  25. The east, traditionally know as the direction from which the sun and other celestial bodies rise, symbolizes new beginnings, chances, and opportunities.